Huck Seed
Huck Seed is one of the famous poker players of the time. He is known as Huckleberry Seed, he is the world’s champion and the top no-limit hold’em player. He was born in California in the U.S and lives in Las Vegas Nevada. He is a Montana native and had plans of becoming an electrical engineer and puts his natural math proficiency to the test at the California institute of technology after graduating from high school but did not complete his studies.
He decided to join the gambling halls of California and Nevada. He won regularly and on his first visit to the world series of poker in 1990 he became fourth in limit hold’em and seven-card stud Hi-lo events. He then cashed in tournament after tournament in the following years getting much more than he would have got as an engineer. In the 1994 World Series, he got his first gold bracelet in the pot-limit Omaha and more than 240,000 dollars was given to him. In 1995 series he was disappointed and was placed 265th overall and his 1996 performance made up for this loss. In that year his picture joined those of legends like Binion’s hall of championship. He was 27 years at that time he brought years of professional poker experience to the table and defeated runner-up Bruce van Horn. Van Horn raised pre-flop with a k-8 and Seed called with 8-9 of diamonds. When the board came down 9-8-4 he bet, Van Horn re-raised and Seed pushed. This brought a worrisome ace that added a flush draw to van Horns lists of outs. A blank on the river awarded Seed instant millionaire status and assured him a place in the poker history.
Seed played poker the days when people did not value poker as professional game and they would shun the poker players and see them as people who gamble to make a name for themselves. He is today recognized and appears on television. Seed is 6’7” tall and prefers to be called Huckleberry. When paired with furtive table presence and is a distinctive player. He has a well documented proposition bets with fellow poker players that has raised his profile in the poker world.
Among the liveliest is a wager Seed made with Phil Hellmuth. With 50,000 dollars at stake he bet he could stand in the ocean for eighteen hours but lasted only three. He reckoned he would make standing back flip in six months a saying that came true. He went backside over the tea kettle half a year later. He cleaned up on a bet he couldn’t break 100 on a dessert golf course five times in one day using just a five iron, sand wedge and putter. He won the bet after six rounds even though he had to complete the feet on a blistering 120 degree day.
Seed’s wager was less physically taxing that he couldn’t shave his beard for one year. One of his relatives died and he shaved the beard to look respectable for the funeral. At this point his tournament trail was not as dominating as in the previous years in his career. He still made a comfortable living at the poker table following his main event win. In the 1998 carnivale of poker in Las Vegas championship event, he got 306,000 dollars. In 1999 he made more bet at the WSOP and made more poker, he tabled in the main event but came out at sixth position earning 167,000 dollars. At the 2000 series, he won a third gold bracelet and 77,400 dollars in the Razz event. He got his fourth gold bracelet in 2003 Razz event and saw him hunkered over five WSOP final tables. In 2004 Seed earned his most recent notable first place finish on the tournament circuit, with a 135,000 dollars win at the Festa al Lago in Las Vegas. His profile is slightly lower than his media-hungry counterparts. He has maintained a presence on the felt at the World Series events where he regularly cashes at high stakes casino games in Vegas and online at his sponsor site, Full Tilt poker. He is known as the ‘bizarre proposition bets’ with his pros. He possesses stone-cold silence at the table a character that strikes fear into his opponents. He has not been active in poker for some time now.
His style has determined a lot of his successful past in the poker games and still goes on to rise due to his ability to rise to the occasion. He admits that he is the ice man. He says the bigger the money the more pleasure and that is when he can focus best. He always relaxes and stays calm in order to give a winning play. He dedicates his wins to the pleasure that comes from the relaxation.
Posted by Joel
on May 9 2010. Filed under Player Profiles.
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